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Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr]


From: Bob Bobeck
Subject: Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr]
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 23:14:25 -0500

I think it's more like Dumbledwarf. He gets killed in the end. Bwahahhahaha.

On 1/7/14, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
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>
>     Emacs _is_ one of the old great ones.  You are trying to make Gandalf
>     more popular by plucking his nose hairs.
>
> It's not a good analogy.  People can like Gandalf as a character
> without having to learn lots of incantations.
>
> Learning Emacs is never going to be easy.  But we might be able
> to change Emacs so that learning it is a little less hard,
> and that would be a substantial improvement.
>
> --
> Dr Richard Stallman
> President, Free Software Foundation
> 51 Franklin St
> Boston MA 02110
> USA
> www.fsf.org  www.gnu.org
> Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
>   Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.
>
>
>



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